St Albans Film Festival: winners announced

The winners of the city’s Film Festival have been announced following a successful and buzzing Bank Holiday weekend in St Albans.

Thousands of film fanatics visited the district to enjoy the second annual festival, which showcased more than 100 feature films and short films in various venues across the city, including Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre and the Cathedral.

The festival launched on the evening of Thursday, May 1, with a screening of the Hitchcock classic The Birds in The Abbey, with a very special guest appearance from the film-star Hedwig from the Harry Potter movies, who will be flying around the cathedral prior to the film screening.

The winners of all categories are as follows:

Main Short Film
First Place: Man In Fear Dir. Will Jewell
Second Place: Wood Woo Dir. Jonny Phillips
Third Place: The Baron Dir. Gareth Tunley